Railway-car seat.



F. H. HILL & H. JEFFREY.

RAILWAY CAR SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT.28.1916.

7 M 1 9 1 M Y AI. U W m. F F E d flu t u Q a v P HR /4 3H FH FRANK H. HILL AND HARVEY JEFFREYQOF GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA, AS- SIGNORS 0F ONE-THIRD TO OSCAR KNUDSON, OF GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA.

RAILWAY-CAR SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4L, 191W.

Application filed umber as, 1916. Serial no. 128,312.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK H. Him. and HARVEY JEFFREY, citizens of the United States, residing at Grand Forks, in the county of Grand Forks and State of North Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Car Seats, of which the following is aspecification, refer ence being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to railway car seats and particularly to improvements in that form of car seatnow commonly used as a standard seat in ordinary day coaches wherein one end of the seat is mounted on a pedestal, theother end of the seat being operatively supported on the wall of the car.

While seats of this character have been adopted as standard railway equipment they are open to the objection, which is common to other forms of car seats, that it is difiicult to sweep and clean. beneath the car seats, it is diflicult to obtain access to the steam pipes which extend along parallel to the baseboard of the car and clean between these pipes and behind them and further that if the pedestal is damaged in any part it is necessary to remove the car seat and replace the entire pedestal at a considerable cost and with some damage to the car itself inasmuch as the screwsholding the pedestal to-the floor of the car haveto be removed and the new pedestal replaced and new screws inserted. I

The general object of our invention is to so improve or modify this 'formof standard seat that the seats of the car may be turned up (end over end) to thereby permitaccess to be readily had to the space beneaththe seats and to the baseboard of the car and the pipes extendingtherealong, thus permitting repairs to be made and dirt removed,

which dirt now accumulates behind the heater pipes and causes insanitary conditions. p

A furthergobject of the invention is to provide a pivotal mounting for the seat upon the supporting pedestal which will permit the ready of the seat from th pedest l and p rm t the'r plae which the cushion 12 is mounted.

structed in accordance with our invention,

the pedestal being partly in section and the locking member being in section;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view ofthe car seat and part of the pedestal;

Fig. 3 is a face view of the end member 28 of the car seat; p

' Fig. 4 is a face view of the plate 34; and Fig. 5 is a fragmentary elevation of the inner face of the plate 28.

Referring to these drawings it will be seen that the seatproper is illustrated as comprising the longitudinally extending beams lOsupporting a seat plate 11 upon The frame composed of the beams 10 and the plate 11 carries at its outer end the usual -arm rest 13.

Theouter end of theseat is supported upon the pedestal 14 which is formed of a hollow casting and which tapers upward and which,

at its upper end, is transversely slotted as at 15 and formed with the oppositely disposed pintle barrels 16 spaced from each other.

'-Attached to the beams 10 in any suitable manner is a metallic frame designated generallyl'l which has formed upon it the transversely extending member 18 having a perforated lug 19 which extends into the space between the pintle barrels and is hingedly connected thereto bya pintle bolt 20 which passes through the pintle barrels and through the lug. The transversely extending member 18 is illustrated as having a transversely concave under face 21 which fits upon and has rotative engagement with the exterior faces of these pintle barrels.

Extending downward from the transverse ,member 18 is an integral bracket 22 which, when the seatis horizontal, is adapted to fit within the slot 15, this bracket carrying upon it the outwardly projecting central hub 01 boss 28. Adjacent the opposite end of the seat there is provided a downwardly extending bracket 2-4 having a boss or hu 25 and pivotally mounted upon these bosses 23 and 25 are the rockers 26 which carry the longitudinally extending foot rests .27. This is the ordinary construction in seats of this character. It will be seen that when oneself the foot rests is disposed in an operative po- ,sition, the under tace .ofthe other foot rest bears against the seat supporting irarne and that the foot rest may be shifted into or out Of operative position in accordance with the shifting of the seat back. We have not illustrated this seat b k nor the mea for enhportingit as it is wellknown and forms no part of our present invention. The outer end of the s' e at, that is, that end of the seat which is adjacent the wall of the car, is formed by a plateor. casting 28, this casting having sockets 29 forthe reception of the beam 1 a n s outer i e h ng fo m wi h t up a y a evenv rg htly extending guide lugs 30 and above these guide lugs with apivoted latch 31 having a detent 82. Mountecl upon the base board"3.3 of the car is a plate '34, theiface of which is provided with an integral upwardlyextending tongue 35, the side faces of which are upwardly and inwardly inclined and the upper el d of which is provided With the laterally projecting tooth 36, The guide ribs 30 coact with, this tongue 35 and guide th a do n ar up n e Wall plat so that the latch 31 will engage withthe tooth 36' and lock the seat in its lowered position the guide ribs 30 engaging with the side faces of the tongue 35., The plate 34: is also formed with the lugs 37 which project outward and engage with the upwardly inclined faces 38 of the plate 28 so asto form a firm support for the outer end of the seat, that is the end toward the wall. The usual steam pipes 39 extend along parallel to the base board of the can and beneath the seat when the seat isin a horizontal position.

Under normal circumstances the seats of the car are arranged in a horizontal position with'the tongues 35 in engagement withthe latches'3l. Now if itbe desired. for any reason to obtain access to the steam pipes or to the space between the steam pipes and the base board, it- 'is only necessary to re lease th latch 31 from t engag men t the tongue 35 and theme the seat may be turned upon the pivot holtu20 to, a vertical position. Under these circumstances the t a pip s m y b e y c ean d nd he dirt removed from between the pipes and from between the pipes and the base board. Access may alsobe had to all that portion of the flo r n r ly vered by the seatand c aim i any repairs may be readily made after which the seat may be returned to its horizontal position and is automatically lockedby the ilatchSl engaging with th'etooth 36.

It Will-be seen that the modifications or improvements which we have devised for this standard form of can seat do not-,in any way interfere with the operation of the seat and change the form of the seat but little. The construction is particularly useful when cars are shopped as the seat may be readily removed by removing the bolt 20 and without the necessity of removing the screws which hold the pedestal 14 to the floor. Furthermore this imnrovementwill reduce the-cost otrepairs inasmuch as if the upper portion Of the car seat support is broken it is only necessary to removethe pintle :holt 20, replace the seatsupporting casting 17 and replace the seat without the necessity-of removing the lower portiono'f thereelestel, he eas at th p en tim if the seat lee" o pe estal is br ke i a y part it isnecessary to discard all of it. This j removal of the pedestal and itsreplacing l o damagesthe car floors bynecessitating the removal of screws and theirireeapplication It will be obvious that no screws need be removed in order to; remove the car seat. a

he made inthe detailed construction without depar ing fr m the p t ofthe in en ion- Having describedthe invention what We 1. In a car structurega supporting pedesc-t lep eed from the al of thecar an h yins erti l y ex n in l an spaced pintle barrels on each ,side of the slot, a seat supporting frame having arclownwardl'y a,

extending lug insertibleiin said slot when the frame is 1n a horizontal pos1ti0n,"sa1d lit; at its upper end having a. transverse perforation for the passage of apintle bolt which pivotally .connectes the seat support-- ing frame tothe barrelganclmeans on the wall of the car for supporting the freeend of the framewhenfthe latter is in a horizontal: pesition.

2. In a carstructure, a snpportingpedestal verticallyslotted having at its upper end laterally spaced .plntle barrels,v a seat supporting rame having adja nt ne end a downwar lyexte dine ug ae ommo et n said slot when the frame is in a horizontal position a pintle passing through the upper end of said lug and through the pintle barrels, .means upon the wall of the car for supp rt ng h ree. nd f the f am a h rizon al. ee t e e ra ket ext nd n downward from the free end of the frame our signatures in the presence of two will;- and having an inwardly extending boss, a nesses.

boss extending inward from the lug, and a FRANK H. HILL. foot rest comprising a pair of rocker arms HARVEY JEFFREY. 5 pivoted to said bosses and carrying longi- Witnesses:

tudinally extending foot supporting bars. 7 LAURENCE J. MnRo,

In testimony whereof we hereunto affix HENRY OKEE E, Jr.

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